December 2011

With a climate of volatility this year, it's surprising to see that the trend in the IT market is fairly predictable. For 9 months we have observed growth in Storage, Software, Webbooks and Headsets.
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Dimension Data has shuffled its senior management team unveiling a fresh face in the managing director chair as well as the solutions and sales director positions. The firm has looked internally for its next managing director promoting Calvin Goom,...
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The Chancellor delivered the 2011 Autumn Statement on 29 November. In the Statement he has kept to the course on which he set out last year, with no adjustment to current overall spending and borrowing, writes Jeff Webber. The Statement focuses ...
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A week when cloud predictions again came to the fore and thanks to the Chancellor George Osborne and his Autumn Statement thoughts also turned to the state of the economy. As public sector workers took to the streets to march against planned changes...
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Back in the days when all that really mattered was plugging your firewall in and switching your anti virus on there were still plenty of people who could not be bothered to protect themselves. That left resellers often embroiled in the task of ...
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McAfee has acquired NitroSecurity, which specialises in security and information management, to bolster its enterprise product line sealing a relationship with the firm that stretches back more than three years. The privately-held NitroSecurity has...
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The next few years are going to be dominated by increased consumerisation and a greater move towards the cloud posing problems for IT administrators and outsourcing specialists alike as greater technology flexibility continues to be the main demand ...
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Cloud email archiving, continuity and security vendor Mimecasthas turned its attention to the thorny problem of remote and mobile email access, and has extended its mobile services proposition to the iPhone for the first time. Its new app will give ...
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Vodafone's Global Enterprise unithas acquired Reading-based ICT consultancy Bluefish Communications for £3.14m to build up its professional services business. Bluefish will form the basis ofr a new UCC practice within the Global Enterprise ...
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Hewlett-Packard's CEO has indicated it plans to ramp up the revenues it brings in from the software side of its business. Meg Whitman has been quoted in a German newspaper outlining an ambition to grow the current $5bn it gets from software sales ...
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